How There Was Almost a Spice Girls Anime in the 90s
Written by admin on July 29, 2025
How There Was Almost a Spice Girls Anime in the 90s
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July 29, 2025
The Spice Girls had multiple bestselling albums, a comedy movie titled Spice World, and an anime in development. Wait, what’s this about an anime? The Spice Girls anime, which was supposed to be called Girl Power: The Anime, never actually ended up happening. However, the latest webisode of The Anime Business concentrates on Manga Video in the UK and interviews Laurence Guinness. Guinness was involved with Manga Video from day one and later headed the UK office. He described how he tried to make anime based on the bands Wu-Tang Clan and the Spice Girls.
“My vision was all about synthesizing anime with the best of Western culture, or certainly some of the interesting things on Western culture,” Guinness said. “The project I was proudest of, an OAV series I conceived, and pitched to Wu-Tang Clan, got very far down the line with a production agreement with them that they’d signed off.”
However, not everyone in the group was interested, and it ultimately didn’t happen.
Then he turned to talking about another project in development, which he described as “completely the other end of the spectrum” — the Spice Girls anime!
“We were in very advanced talks with their management,” he revealed, before showing development cels produced by famed Production I.G, which has been involved with everything from Ghost in the Shell to Attack on Titan. “And we did a lot of work in creating Girl Power: The Anime.”
Some of the cels include Baby Spice running from a T-rex, Sporty Spice in the middle of a kick, and Posh Spice on a motorbike. There are also cels of all the girls together.
“Look, if that’s not girl power in action, I don’t know what is,” he remarked, showing Ginger Spice with a gun.
Would you have been interested in a Spice Girls anime?
The Anime Business
Source: YouTube
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